Foundation-frame for use in hair-dressing.



C. SHAFFER.

FOUNDATION FRAME FOR use m HAIR DRESSING, APPLICATION FILED M'AY 6.19I8.

1,292, 1 0 0, Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

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CHARLES SHAFFER, OF JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA.

FOUNDATION-FRAME FOR USE IN HAIR-DRESSING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

Application filed May 6, 1918. Serial No. 232,795.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES SHAFFER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jacksonville, in the county of Duval and State of Florida, have invented a new and Improved Foundation-Frame for Use 1n Hair-Dressing, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to frames used as a foundation in hair dressing having for the general purpose to prevent the hair from lying fiat upon the head, thereby allow ng ventilation of the scalp and at the same time to support the hair in a manner to increase the apparent bulk and apparent mass thereof when the hair is dressed.

The prime object of my invention 1s to provide a hair foundation frame, improved in various particulars, whereby it may be firmly secured by means of hair plus in position with the base thereof close to the scalp and of a construction to afford ample support for the dressed hair to maintain the same in a given form, an important purpose also being to provide a foundation embodying a clamp formed so that the halr may be gathered and passed between the clamping elements, the clamps being adapted to be engaged for preventing displacement of the hair thus held,

The invention has in view also the production of a clamping hair foundation which will be automatically adjustable to accommodate itself to a greater or lesser amount of hair between the clamping elements.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of One example of the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a foundation.

frame embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

In carrying out my invention in practice as in the example illustrated, a base 10 is provided which is approximately circular, the base being of wire so that 1t may be disposed more or less to conform to the contour of the head. The base 10 is non-continuous, whereby to present an opening at the front, and at the open end the wirefrom which th device is formed is continued upwardly and rearwardly in the general form of an arch, the rearwardly extending arch members 12 crossing each other and the rear ends thereof secured as at 13 to the base 10 as for example, by being twisted around said base. The members 12 are slightly oppositely curved to present generally opposed concave sides as at 14 in front of the point of crossing. Thus, the divided base with the crossed arch members 12 constitute two clamping jaws integral with each other at the rear of the frame. At the front of the jaws suitable means is provided to hold the jaws in closed position, there being shown for the purpose a catch 15 formed in one member 12 at the front end thereof by looping said member and bending over the loop so that the opposite member 12 adjacent to where it joins the base may be hooked over said catch 15 to hold the jaws in closed position or disengaged to open the jaws.

I provide a cross brace 16 secured at its ends as at 17 as by twisting the material of the brace about the base 10, said brace being arched transversely and being looped at the center as at 18, through which loop the cross ends of the members 12 extend loosely.

As will be clear from Fig. 1, the length of the jaws between the front end thereof and the loop 18 or crossing point of the members 12 may be varied. Thus, in practice the hair is gathered together and passed into the frame between the open jaws to lie between the opposed concave sides 14. If a large amount of hair is to be gathered together, the jaws 11 will yield to the resistance of the hair when the jaws are closed and will in turn exert a strain, as it were, rearwardly on the cross brace 16 displacing the latter rearwardly, bringing the crossing point of the members 12 more at the rear and giving a correspondingly increased length to the concave sides 14 of the jaws.

WVith the gathered hair clamped in the device, the base 10 is pressed close to the scalp and held by hair pins in position, conforming approximately to the contour of the head. The gathered hair in the closed clamp may then be allowed to fall in the desired position and the dressing of the hair completed to effectively conceal the frame.

I would state in conclusion that while the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodiment of my invention, I do not limit myself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since manifestly the same can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A foundation frame for use in hair dressing formed of wire and presenting clamp jaws between which the hair may be received, said jaws presenting a base and elevated members forming the inner sides of the jaws, said elevated members crossing each other; together with a cross brace connected at its ends with the base and looped about the crossing members at the point of crossing, the brace being movable on the Copies of this patent may be obtained for crossing members to vary the efiective length of the jaws.

2. A foundation frame for use in hair dressing, formed of wire presenting clamp jaws in which the hair may be received, the jaws comprising base members and elevated members, the elevated members crossing each other and joining the base at the front and rear; together with a transverse brace having a loop through which the elevated members pass at the point of crossing.

CHARLES SHAFFER.

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